Only Cisco offers an end-to-end collaboration solution that includes applications, endpoints, room systems, and infrastructure.

Microsoft Lync is free. Licenses are included in other Microsoft bundles so no incremental costs are required to deploy the full collaboration solution.

Only Cisco supports integration with third-party collaboration solutions.

Microsoft offers a complete solution including endpoints, business video, and soft clients.

skills of the IT teams

keeping the organizational structure unchanged while adapting to new collaboration solutions

fragmentation and complexity of collaboration tools

time for implementation of collaboration hardware

managing infrastructure that is not based on Cisco Collaboration

costs of collaboration

software and tools that enable teamwork

working together remotely

video and chat applications running via the Internet

people working together to reach a common goal